Laughing Matters : Prolegomena / Giorgio Baruchello and Ársæll Már Arnarsson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baruchello, Giorgio, author.

Ársæll Már Arnarsson, author.

Series:

De Gruyter studies in tourism ; Volume 3/1.

De Gruyter Studies in Philosophy of Humor Series ; Volume 3/1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2024]

Summary:

The present book addresses the background, rationale, general structure, and particular aims and arguments characterizing our third and last volume about "humor" and "cruelty". A guiding foray is provided into the vast expert literature that can be retrieved in the Western humanities and social sciences on these two terms. Pivotal thinkers and crucial notions are duly identified, highlighted, and examined. Apposite subsidiary references are also included, especially with regard to psychodynamics and clinical psychology, existentialism, feminism, liberalism, Marxism, and representative recent studies in the philosophy of humor and its cognates. The stage is thus set for the exploration and assessment of the conflicts between humor and cruelty unfolding in Part 2 of Volume 3. Being the philosophical terminus of our entire research project, Volume 3 counterbalances, complements, and, occasionally, complexifies the numerous forms of mutual cooperation between humor and cruelty that the preceding Volume 2 had unearthed and discussed.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Contents

1 Introduction

2 Making Sense of Humour

3 Making Sense of Cruelty

4 Making Sense of Polysemy

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Baruchello, Giorgio Laughing Matters

ISBN:

3-11-076017-7